yawnVideo game journalist (really?) Geoff Keighley did a big story on Portal 2 the other day that was released as an iPad ap (really?) and in it Valve honcho Gabe Newell had something interesting to say.
"Portal 2 will probably be Valve's last game with an isolated single-player experience".. What this all means is something Newell is still trying to figure out."
via kotaku
Now if this really is true, and not some throwaway line in a puff piece about Portal 2 that barely anyone is going to stop playing Portal 2 long enough to download and read, it sucks. Valve has made a lot of great single player games. Ok, Valve has made like 3 great single player games. But they were really really great single player games. Half Life and Half Life 2 are my favorite computer games of all time right next to Ultima IV and Bejeweled Blitz. I really hope they're not ditching single player games to work on co-op games exclusively.
Maybe I'm old, or maybe I'm just socially maladjusted but I don't really get what's so great about Co-op games. I like playing video games with my friends and all, but why play with them when I can play against them? I mean how many humans does it take to beat my xbox 360 anyway? Besides I have a kid these days. You know how many xbox live friends really want to play Halo with me between the hours of 10-11pm on Friday and 7-9am on Sundays? One, his name is Hugh Jankles and I have no idea how he got on my buddies list.
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